### Author:  [@Sarge](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Sarge)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2023, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/project-search-is-useless/22016/1 "2023-08-23T18:19:24Z")
I’ve had an issue with this for a very long time, I just never brought it up. In summary, searching for projects in the projects section yields completely unrelated results
For example, when searching for my project `Control`, after literally typing in the word ‘control’, the project I’m looking for comes up 9TH! 8 projects that have nothing to do with it, name or content-wise come up before it!! I wouldn’t mind but it’s like that for everything, sometimes even the projects I’m looking for don’t come up which can be an issue! Please look into this
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/project-search-is-useless/22016/2 "2023-08-23T18:20:54Z")
yeah, I 100% agree! Becomes extremely useless once you have a lot of projects.
I’ll open an issue for it
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2023, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/project-search-is-useless/22016/3 "2023-08-23T18:24:00Z")
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> Reported on forum here: https://forum.makecode.com/t/project-search-is-useless/2…2016
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> (and I can also vouch for this)
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> If you have a lot of projects, the search bar in the "my projects" view is terrible at finding them. Even if you type in the exact title of the game, chances are it'll be way way down in the list past a bunch of other games.
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### Author:  [@Unique](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Unique)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2023, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/project-search-is-useless/22016/4 "2023-08-23T23:48:46Z")
Sorta related, project thumbnails would be a godsend.
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### Author:  [@jnegative](https://forum.makecode.com/u/jnegative)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2023, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/project-search-is-useless/22016/5 "2023-08-23T23:49:01Z")
Yeah, I agree although their search algorithm isn’t totally crazy:
\*iNTRO
\*aCCeleROmeTeR TesT
\*hORROR
\*wORld\_RaCe
\*OuTRuN
\*uNTiTled
\*etc.
(they all contain at least three letters from “control”)
Definitely something to fix though.
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### Author:  [@Sarge](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Sarge)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2023, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/project-search-is-useless/22016/6 "2023-08-23T23:49:03Z")
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Sarge](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Sarge)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/project-search-is-useless/22016/7 "2023-08-24T17:42:42Z")
And those words that merely contain some letters from the search term “control” are somehow more relevant than the literal word control?
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### Author:  [@YuHayate](https://forum.makecode.com/u/YuHayate)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/project-search-is-useless/22016/8 "2023-08-24T17:44:08Z")
i made somewhat of a search engine [here](https://makecode.com/_MUvYWWXtp4sv)
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### Author:  [@YuHayate](https://forum.makecode.com/u/YuHayate)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/project-search-is-useless/22016/9 "2023-08-24T17:44:17Z")
yes but they don’t sort the list back by the most similar first
```auto
for (word of similarWordList) {
let Templist: string[] = []
let indexOfWord = Math.round((length of array) * (1- (most similar letters in "word") / (total letters in "word")))
Templist.insertAt(indexOfWord, "word")
}
```
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### Author:  [@Sarge](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Sarge)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/project-search-is-useless/22016/10 "2023-08-24T17:46:55Z")
This… is not what we’re discussing, sorry 😕
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### Author:  [@jnegative](https://forum.makecode.com/u/jnegative)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/project-search-is-useless/22016/11 "2023-08-24T20:09:54Z")
Yeah, I still think it’s terrible, also, I think it’s sorted by “recently edited”?
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### Author:  [@Sarge](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Sarge)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/project-search-is-useless/22016/12 "2023-08-24T20:46:11Z")
Yeah, that is the case. But switching to “name” still yields stupid results